WTF? Week 9 already?

I've now left the sanctuary and sloth-filled days and am heading off to the other side of Costa Rica to Monteverde for a few days.  Monteverde is cloud forests, canopy tours, lots of wildlife and supposed to be a beautiful place, so can't wait.

My last day at the sloth sanctuary was good.  I did get to play with Roly-bear, and he tried as usual to bite me but succeeded in only scratching the hell out of my boobs.  He's so cute though so he's forgiven.

I'm also going to miss the little old ice-cream lady.  Today I had 2 ice-creams after lunch because I know I'm not going to get any more.  The little old ice-cream lady is tiny and about 100.  She lives in a house as old and as tiny as her and it is surrounded by lots of flowers and at footpath entrance is a little blue sign that says 'Se vende helados c200'.  You go in and ask her for her homemade ice-cream which comes in 3 flavours - coconut, peanut or this strawberry condensed milk thing.  They cost the equivalent of 40c and ice-cream is in little plastic bags that kinda smell a bit fishy from being in the freezer, but that doesn't matter, you just bite off the corner and get into it.  It's so good, we've been dropping in on her pretty much daily, so the sloth volunteers must be a fantastic source of income for her.

After work we went into Cahuita for a couple of beverages at the Reggae bar which was fun, and then were home about 8pm.  Another big night out partying for the volunteers.

It's a bit sad leaving the sanctuary as I would have liked to have spent another couple of weeks there.

But this week Beth arrived who has recently come from Ecudor and the Galapagos Islands.  She gave me heaps of info and tips and told me how fantastic it is, so now I'm getting pretty excited about that.  I fly out Thursday to Quito, Ecudor and have about six weeks to see Ecudor, the Galapagos and then get to Lima.

Random slothy facts

- Sloths have four stomachs, but they don't regurgatate like cows, it just goes straight through
- It takes about 25 days for sloth food to digest
- Sloths supposedly poo/wee just once a week and always go down to the ground to do it  - except for two in my section who decided to poo & wee 3 times this week.  And do it in their container for me to clean up.
- A sloths sense of smell is their best sense.
- Surprisingly, sloths aren't very smelly at all.  It's a part of their camoflage, they
take on the scent of their environment. 
- The sloths at the sanctuary do not have fungusy-stuff growing on them as they do in the wild.  This is something they pick up from their environment. Another of their devious ways to blend in with the environment.